US Patent Issued to RTX on Dec. 2 for "Supporting elongated rotating assembly within a turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,786, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Supporting elongated rotating assembly within a turbine engine" was invented by Jon E. Sobanski (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Jacob C. Snyder (East Haddam, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine is provided that includes a first rotating assembly, a bearing, a turbine engine core and a flowpath. The first rotating assembly includes a propulsor rotor, a power turbine rotor and a power turbine shaft coupled with and axially between the propulsor rotor and the power turbine rotor. The bearing rotatably supports the first rotating assembly at an intermediate ...